Month: October 2016

Over the years crores have been spent on the stray dog menace but the situation is just getting shoddier. The stray dog menace across Goa is now beyond control. The so called sterilisation programme is just not working. Sterilization alone can never be the only solution to this grave and alarming crisis of stray dogs. […]

In Shashikala’s Kakodkar’s death Goa has lost a great leader. Goa’s second Chief Minister, Shashikala Kakodkar was known as ‘Tai’ to us all. She took over the reins of Goa on August 12, 1973 following the death of her father, Goa’s first Chief Minister, Dayanand Bandodkar. Shashikala Kakodkar was India’s third lady Chief Minister, the […]

Tomorrow on Dr Jack de Sequeira’s death anniversary the Goa government could have unveiled at the Secretariat in Porvorim the statue of Goa’s first Leader of Opposition. Successive governments despite their assurances have done nothing worthwhile in memory of Dr Jack de Sequeira. But for his then tireless efforts during that historic Opinion Poll which was held on 16th January 1967, Goa […]

The BJP has not even spared the very auspicious Dussehra day to indulge in yet another rip-off in today shifting the office of the Goa State Infrastructure Development Corporation (GSIDC) to the Spaces building at Patto. It is no secret that over the last four and half years, the GSIDC has for the BJP been […]

The beleaguered and controversial Goa BJP Vice President Anil Hoble has lost his last ditch battle in the Supreme Court to save his illegal structures including the River Lounge Bar & Restaurant along the Ribandar-Panaji causeway. The Supreme Court has dismissed his appeal and upheld the National Green Tribunal (NGT) Pune Bench’s order to demolish […]

A senior police officer has today cautioned me that a well-planned attack on my life could happen anytime. I have been advised to take extra precautions in my movements. This I shall not do! I have always led the life of a common man. I have been attacked many a time. But my time was […]

It was known way back in March that the 2016 BRICS summit was going to be hosted at Goa this October. So why could not the state BJP government which brags of Good Governance and Zero Tolerance to Corruption plan the infrastructure for the event well in advance instead of this last minute hushed up […]